Satellites EGSE

Scientific

Cryocooler

Thales Alenia Space Bristol (United Kingdom)Delivery of PCDU SCOE which is suited to power the cryocooler unit. Thales Alenia Space UK (TAS UK) is under contract to the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a CryoCooler Unit (CCU) product for application to a variety of future missions.

ExoMars 2020 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)

Thales Alenia Space Bristol (United Kingdom)Delivery of PCDU SCOE which allowed simulation of IMU power feed lines. ExoMars 2020 mission will deliver a European rover and a Russian surface platform to the surface of Mars. During launch and cruise phase, a carrier module (provided by ESA) will transport the surface platform and the rover within a single aeroshell.

ExoMars 2020 Rover

Antwerp Space Hoboken (Belgium)Delivery of Umbilical, Solar Array, Battery, Pyro, Battery Conditioning, Load and TCS SCOE’s which will allow simulating solar panels, batteries, separation straps, pyrotechnics of ExoMars Carrier Module.ExoMars 2020 mission will deliver a European rover and a Russian surface platform to the surface of Mars. During launch and cruise phase, a carrier module (provided by ESA) will transport the surface platform and the rover within a single aeroshell.

ExoMars 2016 Avionic Test Bench (ATB)

Thales Alenia Space Cannes (France)Delivery of avionic test bench and it’s accessories (harness).ExoMars 2016 mission consists of Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) plus an entry, descent and landing demonstrator module (EDM), known as Schiaparelli. The main objectives of this mission are to search for evidence of methane and other trace atmospheric gases that could be signatures of active biological or geological processes in Mars.

ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO)

Thales Alenia Space Cannes (France) Delivery of Umbilical, Solar Array, Battery, Pyro and Launch Power Supply SCOE’s which allowed simulating solar panels, batteries, separation straps, pyrotechnics of Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft.ExoMars 2016 mission consists of Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) plus an entry, descent and landing demonstrator module (EDM), known as Schiaparelli. The main objectives of this mission are to search for evidence of methane and other trace atmospheric gases that could be signatures of active biological or geological processes in Mars.

ExoMars 2016 mission consists of Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) plus an entry, descent and landing demonstrator module (EDM), known as Schiaparelli. The main objectives of this mission are to search for evidence of methane and other trace atmospheric gases that could be signatures of active biological or geological processes in Mars.

Solar Orbiter

Airbus Defence & Space Ltd Stevenage (United Kingdom)Delivery of satellite electrical test Bench (ETB) sometimes called “flatsat”. Test bench designed to perform the avionic qualification and system performance verification. It is composed of numerical simulators completed as one and goes along with electronic models (EM).Solar Orbiter is intended to brave the fierce heat and carry its telescopes to nearly one quarter of the Earth's distance from the Sun, where sunlight will be thirteen times more intense than satellites in the vicinity of the Earth feel it. The spacecraft must also endure powerful bursts of atomic particles from explosions in the solar atmosphere. The reward will come in the form of sharp images obtained together with unprecedented measurements of the local near-Sun phenomena.

BepiColombo

Airbus Defence & Space GmbH Friedrichshafen (Germany) –Kourou (French Guyana)Delivery of Power SCOE’s which allowed simulating solar panels, spacecraft main bus power and battery.The BepiColombo mission is based on two spacecrafts, one is to map the planet and another to investigate its magnetosphere. Among several investigations, BepiColombo will make a complete map of Mercury at different wavelengths.

ATV

Airbus Defence & Space [former EADS Astrium GmbH Bremen] (Germany)Delivery of Power SCOE which allowed performing the power supply and monitoring of the ATV spacecraft during the AIT phases.The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is an unmanned space transport vehicle designed to support services to the International Space Station (ISS) during six months following its docking to the Russian Service Module.

GAIA

Airbus Defence & Space [former EADS Astrium Portsmouth] (United Kingdom)Delivery of Pyro SCOE which performed simulation and monitoring of 60 pyro initiators. Gaia is a mission that conducts a census of about one thousand million stars in our Galaxy. It monitors each of its target stars about 70 times during a five-year period, precisely charting their positions, distances, movements and changes in brightness.

GOCE

Airbus Defence & Space [former EADS Astrium GmbH Friedrichshafen] (Germany) & Plesetzk (Russia)Delivery of Power SCOE’s which allowed simulating satellite solar panels, batteries, thermistors, separation straps, deployment switches, pyrotechnics and thermal knives lines. The sub-system was also used during the launch campaign and was installed in the Plesetzk launch pad.The Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) is dedicated to measuring the Earth’s gravity field and modelling the geoid with extremely high accuracy and spatial resolution.

ROSETTA

Thales Alenia Space Turin (Italy)Delivery of Power SCOE’s which allowed simulating satellite solar panels, batteries, thermistors, separation straps, deployment switches, pyrotechnics and thermal knives lines. The sub-system was also used during the launch campaign and was installed in the Ariane 5 (Kourou) launch pad.ROSETTA mission goal was to chase the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and land the small lander called Philae onto the surface of a comet.

MARS EXPRESS

Thales Alenia Space Turin (Italy)Delivery of Power SCOE’s which allowed simulating satellite solar panels, batteries, energy consumption, thermistors, pyrotechnics and thermal knives lines. The sub-system was also used during the launch campaign and was installed in the Soyuz (Russia) launch pad.Mars Express is Europe’s first spacecraft to the Red Planet.

INTEGRAL

Thales Alenia Space Turin (Italy)Delivery of Power SCOE’s which allowed simulating satellite solar panels, batteries, energy consumption, thermistors, pyrotechnics and thermal knives lines. The sub-system was also used during the launch campaign and was installed in the Proton (Russia) launch pad.The task of INTEGRAL, ESA's International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, is to gather some of the most energetic radiation that comes from space.

XMM-Newton

Airbus Defence & Space [former EADS Astrium GmbH Friedrichshafen] (Germany)Delivery of Power SCOE’s which allowed simulating satellite solar panels, batteries, energy consumption and thermistors. The sub-system was also used during the launch campaign and was installed in the Ariane 5 (Kourou) launch pad.XMM-Newton is a joint NASA-European Space Agency (ESA) orbiting observatory, designed to observe high energy X-rays emitted from exotic astronomical objects such as pulsars, black holes and active galaxies.